Case Study: The Falcon Throne

Job: This was the first book in what is intended to be a sprawling saga. With series it’s important to remember that choices made in book 1 will affect books 2-10, and this is true for editing as well. This means being extra careful when checking details – and in this case meant creating a strong and detailed style sheetin order to ensure consistency – not just for the benefit of the other editors and proofreaders, but hopefully for the benefit of the author as well. Since this was to be so epic, it was a chance not only to track word and punctuation choices, characters, and place names, but also finer details of character appearance and habits.